Business Card Composer - create and print business or personal cards with this native Mac OS X app. Prepared design and image collections make it easy to create your own cards.

Brand-new Mac technologies expand users' capabilities when working with graphics and text (opacity, masks, color graded fills and more). Full integration with the OS X system functionality enables using personal information for cards from the Apple Address Book.

Business Card Composer allows to print out cards on specific paper stock from world-wide manufacturers, or custom paper.

Diverse content
Choose among over 23,000 high-quality images, nearly 600 professional designs and additional 50 Bitstream fonts to create a nice-looking card quickly. A large collection of profession-oriented designs cover the most common occupations. No matter what service you offer - you will find that special design you need.

Powerful image editing tools
A variety of editing tools let you create your own designs with ease. With the help of these tools you can apply masks, fills, tiling, control transparency and shadows. Smart guides help to position elements accurately and precisely. Switching between Background and Foreground modes enables you to create and edit complicated designs.

Cutting-edge technology
Business Card Composer employs the latest technologies. It integrates with Mac OS X applications such as Address Book and iPhoto. The program is perfect for making all kinds of badges - it automatically replaces images, takes data from the text files and allows to numerate them. Using export to TIFF, JPEG and PDF, you can share your cards by email, on the Internet, or print them in the print shop. And that's just the top of the iceberg...

Advanced printing
New printing technology, introduced in the application, allows choosing among 3 printing methods to find the one that better fits your needs. You can either print cards for yourself, or print one design for several people, or even print multiple designs on one sheet. Business Card Composer works with any inkjet or laser printer, also supports duplex printers for printing double-sided cards. Card stock from Avery and other popular vendors is supported, as well as custom paper layouts. Any customer can purchase additional (20 sheets in a pack) Avery business cards paper for $14 on our website.

Here are some key features of "Business Card Composer":

Graphics
· More than 23.000 clipart images (700 - in download edition).
· More than 500 ready-made designs, organized in categories (400 - in download edition).
· More than 100 unique masks.

Design Business Cards
· Create regular, folded, CD-R cards.
· Horizontal and vertical layouts supported.
· Smart guides help to arrange design elements neatly.
· 3 alignment modes, among them text alignment as to the text borders.
· The application supports object editing on Background and Foreground layers, which helps to create advanced card designs.
· Special text labels for marking phone number, e-mail, etc.

Working with Graphics
· Control transparency, tint images with colors, tile and rotate them.
· Insert images in many supported formats - TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS and more.
· 7.000 photo objects with transparent background can be applied to any picture to create mixed designs.
· Search images by keywords.
· Image cropping allows you to crop images to remove the parts you don't like directly in Composer.
· A custom image can be used as a mask as well as predesigned masks.

Technologies
· Integration with Apple Address Book - drag and drop contacts right onto your cards.
· Integration with iPhoto lets preview and use pictures from the iPhoto libraries.
· Search images in Google - right from Business Card Composer!
· Images from a custom folder can be used along with the built-in clipart.
· Generate fancy random backgrounds with a click of the button.
· Order your cards to be printed and mailed to you from an online print shop.
· Counter feature allows you to numerate cards, assign each card a unique number.
· Text File Data support allows to read the data from text files. This can be helpful for creating badges for a conference, etc.

Usability
· 3-step Assistant to get started quickly.
· About 700 supported business card paper for ink jet and laser printers, from Avery, APLI, Decadry, Sigel, A-One and other manufacturers.
· Use custom layouts for unsupported card stock, greeting cards, badges and other kinds of labels.
· Customizable export to PDF and TIFF allows to save your design in a format, appropriate for sending to a professional print shop.
· Use export to JPEG format for sending business card via e-mail.

Print Cards
· Printer calibration allows to fine-tune the printer for accurate results.
· Cut marks can be printed - helpful for printing on non-perforated paper.
· Control the number of cards you want to print and the position on the sheet from where to start printing.
· New printing technology allows choosing among 3 printing methods. You can either print cards for yourself, or print one design for several people, or even print multiple designs on one sheet.
· In the printing process, preview window with the additional settings displays your modifications on the fly.

Requirements:

· 70 MB of available hard drive space (1.8 GB required for full clipart install).
· DVD drive.
· Printer - inkjet or laser (optional).

Limitations:

· Promotional text will be printed on each card untill you register.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed import into File Data fields from a text file.
· Corrected the problem with the program freezing when decoding images with Barcode Reader under Mac OS X 10.4.
· Fixed the bug causing unstable behavior under Mac OS X 10.4 when more than one text box objects were present in the document.
· The Print dialog now remembers the print side setting.
· The File Data import parameters such as encoding, column, delimiter are now remembered in the Open dialog.
· Solved the problem with Undo working incorrectly for text fields with labels.